HERBALS

THEIR ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION

A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF BOTANY 1470-1670

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS London: FETTER LANE, E.C. C. F. CLAY, Manager

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LEONHARD FUCHS (1501-1566). [Engraving by Speckle in De historia stirpium, 1542.]

HERBALS THEIR ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF BOTANY 1470-1670 BY AGNES ARBER (Mrs. E. A. NEWELL ARBER) D.Sc., F.L.S., FELLOW OF NEWNHAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE AND OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON Cambridge: at the University Press 1912 Cambridge: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

TO MY FATHER

H. R. ROBERTSON

“Wherefore it maye please your ... gentlenes to take these my labours in good worthe, not according unto their unworthines, but accordinge unto my good mind and will, offering and gevinge them unto you.”

William Turner’s Herbal, 1568.